{"id":427,"date":"2010-03-31T18:04:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T18:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/in-with-the-new\/"},"modified":"2010-03-31T18:04:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T18:04:00","slug":"in-with-the-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/in-with-the-new\/","title":{"rendered":"In with the new&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 1em; float: right; display: block; width: 150px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:Obama_Portrait_2006.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/c\/c3\/Obama_Portrait_2006.jpg\/300px-Obama_Portrait_2006.jpg\" alt=\"Barack Obama delivers a speech at the Universi...\" style=\"border: medium none ; display: block; width: 140px; height: 211px;\" \/><\/a><span>Image via <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:Obama_Portrait_2006.jpg\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think anyone, Republican or Democrat can be happy with the education system and the costs associated with it. I loved <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2010\/03\/30\/meaningful-progress-american-people\">hearing Obama say<\/a> &#8220;&#8230;what\u2019s gotten overlooked amid all the hoopla, all the drama of last week, is what happened in education &#8212; when a great battle pitting the interests of the banks and financial institutions against the interests of students finally came to an end.&#8221; There are so many things that are in the way of education right now &#8211; student loans, the costs of textbooks, high unemployment, and the banking crisis &#8211; things that should not effect education as much as they do. We have an opportunity now to dismantle the old infrastructure that has long stood as a barrier to education for so many. If we are going to send manufacturing jobs over-seas, we owe it to the citizens to provide for an education. We are removing the barriers to health care and the same can happen for education. Why aren&#8217;t Canadians or people from Scandinavia breaking down the doors to live in this country illegally? The strange thing is that I could take some classes from a Danish university online because they do not charge tuition for their classes. 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